Bella loves freeze dried mangos and mangosteens (totally different fruits) from TJ's. And those snap pea crisps they sell there too! Love em! Other than that, you pretty much feed your DD the same thing I feed mine!

BTW, Bella loves those organic yogurts by Stoneyfield in the tubes (yes they have sugar).....I don't give them to her too often, but when I do she loves them frozen!

We have Ants on a Log (a celery stick filled with peanut butter and then raisins stuck in the peanut butter), pumpkin or zucchini bread muffins (I make it with organic whole wheat flour and organic sugar), carrot sticks with Ranch (still trying to find a good dip without MSG) and just about any fruit; grapes, apple wedges (which are yummy with peanut butter too), pealed oranges, bananas, pears, etc. We try not to incorporate too much dairy or processed/refined wheat and sugar. I'm racking my brain for veggie snacks that the kids will actually eat. Carrot sticks and celery are as far as they'll go and even then not everyone will eat them.

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all the above ideas are good, and healthy.
If you are at home and you have time you can make animal or other faces with diff. fruits and veggies. They'll pick off the ones they like, and leave the rest for you to eat....
I have a book with ideas+ photos of the snacks, so it's easy for me to make them. I can photocopy them for you.

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Maeve LOVES frozen peas, still frozen , for a snack. Sometimes she even wants frozen corn! She also loves popcorn. Popcorn is a high-quality carbohydrate and is LOADED with fiber. She likes it with butter, cinnamon sugar, freshly grated Parmesan, or curry powder and raisins. I also make smoothies for Maeve. She thinks they're milkshakes!

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We don't have set meal times in our house so the girls snack all day. I offer steamed broccoli (with nutritional yeast sprinkles), steamed sweet potato, beans (all kinds right from the can rinsed off), cubed baked tofu, and noodles in addition to all the things people mention like fruit etc. I also offer trail mix that I make with raw nuts (cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, pistachio nuts, almonds, raisins, cheerios, shredded coconut etc) that I keep on hand for snacky times. Then when it comes time for my dh and I to sit down for dinner they sit with us but if they are not hungry they are not required to eat, as they get older they eat with us more often than not.